Guelph United FC (9-2-0) dropped their final home game of the 2021 season 1-0 to Oakville’s Blue Devils FC (8-1-2).
As the season winds down, the top three clubs in the L1O West Division have been in a tight race to see which two will survive the race for November and move on to this year’s playoffs. With Guelph having already clinched their spot with a mid-week win over Sigma FC (4-4-3), the Blue Devils and FC London (8-3-0) are jostling to determine who will be joining the #UnitedFront in the post-season.
Alumni Stadium’s last League1 regular season match of the year was a bittersweet affair which saw just over 300 supporters in the stands.
A scoreless deadlock was broken by the Blue Devils who netted one past Guelph keeper Svyatik Artemenko, marking only his 13th goal allowed this season.
Guelph would fail to equalize the rest of the match and would fall to the Blue Devils; the previous meeting between these two sides was a starkly different affair as back on Aug. 29, when Guelph dominated the Blue Devils in Oakville with a 5-0 win.
The match marks Guelph’s second-last game for the regular season as the squad now marches toward Mississauga where on Oct. 23, United will take on Sigma at the Paramount Fine Food Centre – Field 1 at 1pm.
While Guelph failed to capitalize on the top seed-clinching points, a win on the 23rd would secure them the divisional title.
As for FC London and the Blue Devils, they will be meeting each other in one final bout on the 24th to determine who will be joining Guelph in the post-season.
Guelph will be hosting the number-two seed in the East Division at Alumni Stadium on Oct. 30.
